Ralf Thielow <ralf.thielow@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> It's actually my own usecase :). The bugtracker I'm using is able
> to create relationships between issues and related commits. It
> expects that a part of the commit message contains the issue number
> in format "#<issueId>". So I need to use a cleanup mode different
> from "default" to keep the commentary.
This is orthogonal to the patch in question, but in your particular
case, I wonder if it is a workable solution to indent #<bugid> in
your message, which won't be stripped away.
I also wonder, as a longer term alternative (which would require a
lot of code auditing and some refactoring), if it is useful to have
an option and/or configuration that lets you configure the "comment
in log message editor" character from the default "#" to something
else. "git -c log.commentchar=% commit" may start the log message
editor with something like this in it:
% Please enter the commit message for your changes. Lines starting
% with '%' will be ignored, and an empty message aborts the commit.
Naturally, setting log.commentchar to "none" would disable stripping
of any commented lines if such a feature existed, and stop issuing
these helpful comments altogether, but still strip excess blank
lines and trailing whitespaces.
I wouldn't seriously suggest it as I am not sure if the usefulness
of such a feature would outweigh the cost of coding it, though; at
least not at this point yet.
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